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| Bill | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TERMINATION AND TRANSFER OF PARENTAL RIGHTS IN ADOPTION PROCEEDINGS. | This Act is the result of over 6 years of work and collaboration among the Family Court, Department of Justice, Department of Services for Youth, Children, and their Families, the Office of the Child Advocate, private adoption agencies, and the Family Law Section of the Delaware Bar Association to modernize Delaware’s termination of parental rights (“TPR”) statute. | us/states/de | Delaware General Assembly | 151 | SB 141 | Delaware SB 141 (151) |
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1 | 7 | 2 | 2021-05-18 | 2021-09-30 | openstates | ocd-bill/e81ed3c8-d6e4-48d7-8d12-52f688b8b6ff | https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78730 | ff12183f45c954aa4f2abbf718e6e10924d2bd8f7a1171f30e9e47de4e441976 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Delaware SB 141 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TERMINATION AND TRANSFER OF PARENTAL RIGHTS IN ADOPTION PROCEEDINGS.
This Act is the result of over 6 years of work and collaboration among the Family Court, Department of Justice, Department of Services for Youth, Children, and their Families, the Office of the Child Advocate, private adoption agencies, and the Family Law Section of the Delaware Bar Association to modernize Delaware’s termination of parental rights (“TPR”) statute.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
- SM — 19–2 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-05-18 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate
introduction, referral-committee - 2021-06-08 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2021-06-09 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 NO
passage - 2021-06-10 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House
introduction, referral-committee - 2021-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 9 On Its Merits
committee-passage - 2021-06-24 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
passage - 2021-09-30 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e81ed3c8-d6e4-48d7-8d12-52f688b8b6ff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).